STEVE GUNN Other You MATADOR
““I’m not in the best place in my mind/Have you ever been there?”
STEVE GUNN likes to paint a beautiful picture, then scribble all over it. “Fulton”, the second song on his new album , opens with stray piano notes and organ chords twined around a striding guitar strum, as Gunn muses on finding calm and stillness. he sings, then the electric guitar rampages into the song, thick and staticky and tangled, intruding on Gunn’s contemplation and lingering on the fringes of the song like a gremlin in the works. The solo doesn’t quite fit the mood or the sound of the song, but that’s the whole point: there can be a peculiar beauty in such stark contrasts between sounds, in the interruptions of
